Make your Air Conditioning Smart for less than $20!

Hook up your air conditioner to your home automation system using ESPHome firmware on a cheap Tuya-based IR blaster remote control. In this case I connect my Daikin split-system reverse cycle air conditioning system to my existing Home Assistant platform and control it using Google Assistant. I run through the steps behind this blog article: https://thomasfriberg.com/blog/adding... 0:00 Problem statement 0:35 Solution preview 1:02 Relationship between air conditioning and virtual power plants 2:30 4 IR blaster options 3:50 Experience of the Broadlink RM4C IR blaster 4:40 Tuya white labelled devices - Generic IR blaster options 5:36 Identifying an ESP8266 chip (ESP-12F) on Tuya devices for reprogramming 5:57 Setting up Home Assistant 6:24 Introducing ESPHome 6:50 Installing file editor plugin for Home Assistant to configure WiFi paswords 7:30 Creating a new ESPHome device configuration and compiling firmware 10:50 Unboxing of the IR Blaster 11:47 Soldering the IR blaster for re-programming/flashing 12:55 USB connection to the IR blaster via FTDI RS232 adapter 14:15 Installing the ESPHome flasher utility and uploading the firmware 15:18 Checking communications with new IoT device 15:50 Completing device auto-discovery and verifying communications 17:29 Re-boxing and mounting the IR blaster 19:28 Switching air conditioning via the Home Assistant mobile app 19:50 Nabu Casa Account for additional voice assistant features and use outside home WiFi network 20:08 Google Assistant commands demo 20:17 Summary of video 20:58 Adding home automation rules triggering air conditioning IR blaster buy link: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/40008... FTDI USB to RS232 adapter and other equipment links available on the blog link above. GitHub YAML config for ESPHome: https://github.com/tomtheswede/ESP12-... Music: Anywhen You Say - Cheel (youtube music library)